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Brazil’s first listed modern monument was Niemeyer’s Pampulha Church of São Francisco de Assis.

Niemeyer would design the buildings and Lucio the plan of the city.In the space of a few months, Niemeyer designed a large number of residential, commercial and government buildings.

Costa explained that the Brazilian Pavilion adopted a language of ‘grace and elegance’, lightness and spatial fluidity, open plan, curves and free walls, which he termed ‘Ionic’, contrasting it to the contemporaneous stern Modernist architecture, which he termed ‘Doric’.

After completion, Niemeyer was nominated head chief of the college of architecture of the University of Brasà­lia.

He spent his youth as a typical young Carioca of the time: bohemian and relatively unconcerned with his future.

They married at his apartment in Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema district a month after fracturing his hip in a fall.2007 saw Niemeyer turn 100 and still involved in diverse projects, mainly sculptures and readjustments of old works of his that, protected by national (and some cases international) historic heritage regulations, can only be modified by him.